If the youths warm toeachother, the fair can trigger complex financial negotiations about the price a young man's family must pay toa woman's parents if they are to wed.
The most likely outcome is that, whatever the differences in style, America's new man at the UN and his interlocutors will find a way to talk toeachother.
Trish made it very clear to both of us (I met the older man in business and Trish got a kick out of our knowing eachother) that our money was a prerequisite to continued dating.